3 Standouts From The First Week Of The 2026 WHL Pre-Season
A look at three players who have had strong starts to the 2026 WHL pre-season.
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Not able to get around.
It's Parocha now turning.
Up to the blue line, Cooper holds the line.
Wheels it near side for Novak, up top for Valkonen.
Spins and passes along Cameron Schmidt.
The vision, able to get off a skate blade of Van Gorp.
Turns it off the board, it's a nifty move by Cameron Schmidt, on across for Novak.
Looking, firing wide.
It'll roll along far side.
Schmidt able to hold the line, has Van Gorp shadowing him.
Pass to the middle for Valkonen.
Looks down low for Cooper in the corner.
Miles Cooper, back up top.
Schmidt holds, fires, and scores.
Cameron Schmidt, his first goal as a Victoria Royal in the preseason, and it's a top-shelf snipe.
Royals up two-nothing.
Wow, what a release there, and Schmidt just got real.
Brilliant goal.
And Cameron Schmidt, first time around it's a short-handed play, shows the patience, finds Cooper.
This time around, Cooper slides it back to the, in between the face-off dots, and that's the release that we talk about and you hear about from Cameron Schmidt.
Unloads on that one, finds the back of the twine.
Victoria, a shorty and a power play marker, two-nothing.
The special teams-
